IdeaScale
OCTOBER 4, 2023
In the world of innovation, everyone loves to focus on tech giants like OpenAI, national institutions like the US Military, or transformative non-profits such as the Grameen Bank. Yet, the true magic of innovation isn't confined to these limelight entities; it also thrives in the initiatives of smaller, local governments—where innovation has the power to [.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Curiosity is not just a medium by which we achieve professional success, it’s also imperative to unlocking purpose and meaning at work. Curiosity about ourselves, our work, and our colleagues is the key to unlocking the significance behind our work. Adopting the mindset of curiosity with the intention of discovering purpose is made possible through four simple practices: crafting your work, making work a craft, connecting work to service, and investing in positive relationships.
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Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 2, 2023
GUEST POST from Greg Satell We live in an age in which change has become the only constant. So it’s not surprising that change management models have become popular. Executives are urged to develop a plan to communicate the need for change, create a sense of urgency and then drive the process through to completion.
Paul Hobcraft
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Exploring the interplay between Humans, Technology and AI for design thinking Why is design thinking regarded as so crucial to the future of innovation in a world of accelerating interplays between humans, technology and generative AI? By embracing Design Thinking principles differently in the future of innovation, organizations can foster a more profound culture of creativity, empathy, collaboration, and user-centricity.
Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage
If AI agents are going to deliver ROI, they need to move beyond chat and actually do things. But, turning a model into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. In this new webinar, Alex Salazar and Nate Barbettini will break down the emerging AI architecture that makes action possible, and how it differs from traditional integration approaches.
Entrepreneur - Innovation
OCTOBER 4, 2023
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said at a conference that AI could surpass human intelligence within the next 10 years. See details, here.
Digital Tonto
OCTOBER 1, 2023
Today we are in a change crisis. Businesses need to internalize new technologies like AI and adapt to new realities like hybrid work, but still struggle to adopt decades old skills related to lean manufacturing, agile development and cultural competency. If we are going to drive the transformations we need to compete, we need to take an evidence based approach.
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Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 4, 2023
GUEST POST from Stefan Lindegaard I often talk about organizational inertia being the biggest obstacle for innovation but if this is true for your organization what should you look out for? Here’s my take.
Innovating4Energy
OCTOBER 1, 2023
The art of leapfrogging accelerates the Energy Transition Any search for advantage or validation of making a change must consider the art of leapfrogging, especially in the Energy Transition we are all undergoing. Leapfrogging can accelerate the rapid and transformative progress toward a more sustainable and efficient energy ecosystem that provides advantage and customer identification.
Tullio Siragusa
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Blueprint for Bouncing Back: A Design Thinking Guide to Unemployment Life’s journey is peppered with unpredictable twists and turns. Among them, unemployment often casts a formidable shadow, marked by anxiety and doubt. Yet, beyond the immediate challenges, it offers a chance for introspection, reinvention, and growth. This article sheds light on how to transform this phase into a period of rejuvenation, offering practical strategies to ensure hope, positivity, and evolution.
Christensen Institute
OCTOBER 5, 2023
In the 2010s, coding bootcamps caught the higher education world’s imagination. The movement sparked both excitement and fear. General Assembly, Galvanize, Flatiron School, Dev Bootcamp, and more were written up in media outlets like Forbes , The New York Times , and TechCrunch, and attracted venture capital and heady valuations. At the Christensen Institute, we wondered if they might disrupt universities’ master’s degree programs.
Speaker: Jason Cottrell and Gireesh Sahukar
Retailers know the clock is ticking–legacy SAP Commerce support ends in 2026. Legacy platforms are becoming a liability burdened by complexity, rigidity, and mounting operational costs. But modernization isn’t just about swapping out systems, it’s about preparing for a future shaped by real-time interactions, AI powered buying assistants, and flexible commerce architecture.
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 5, 2023
GUEST POST from Shep Hyken We have the privilege and honor of working with some amazing clients. One of them asked us to work with her team on a customer experience initiative that included every company employee.
IdeaSpies
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Google’s antitrust trial has laid bare just how much the search giant relies on its competitors - and how vulnerable that makes it. Half of Google’s traffic and revenue comes from Apple. That’s why it pays billions to be the default search engine on iPhone and Macs. Without this agreement, Google could lose $80 billion in annual ad revenue. To try to ensure that doesn’t happen, Google pays Apple $8-10 billion-a-year.
Planview
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Speed in delivering high-value innovations is a critical differentiator that can make or break companies. According to a Boston Consulting Group report, companies prioritizing innovation—arriving first to market with new and relevant ideas—outperform the MSCI World Index on shareholder return by 3.3 percentage points per year. As technologies evolve and disruptions become an ever-growing presence of the business landscape, one of the best ways to improve the quick delivery of high-value innovati
Christensen Institute
OCTOBER 5, 2023
In our last Thursday Theory Tips piece, we explored disruption as a theory of competition. In this piece, we’ll explore one of the two types of disruption: new market disruptions and, consequently, market-creating innovations (MCIs)— the specific spark that births a new market structure. Market-creating innovations—innovations that transform complicated and expensive products into products that are simple and affordable so many more people can access them—are a significant focus of our work in
Speaker: Frank Taliano
Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 6, 2023
GUEST POST from Mike Shipulski When you follow the best practice, by definition your work is not new. New work is never done the same way twice. That’s why it’s called new. Best practices are for old work. Usually, it’s work that was successful last time.
Kainexus
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Let’s be honest, it can be difficult to get people excited about the subject of business process improvement. The phrase itself has no personality, no flair. Of course, we know that continuous improvement and innovation are requirements for success in today’s hyper-competitive environment. One way to get teams excited about business process improvement is to bring meaning to it using an inspiring motto or catchphrase that gives life to the idea.
Innovating4Energy
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The search for stability with all the disruption and dislocation. Alamy Stock Photo How do you reassure those worried that significant changes to their energy system will lead to the inevitable disruption and dislocation none of us like? How can you deal with this to elevate some of those worries? How can we manage so much change occurring to give some level of stability and continuity?
BrainZooming
OCTOBER 2, 2023
What best practices set the stage for employees and other audiences to share sensitive, challenging, and aspirational perspectives ? Which aspects are most important, especially, when the perspectives relate to authority figures, organizational leaders, officials, or anyone else participants answer to in some fashion?
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 1, 2023
GUEST POST from Geoffrey A. Moore The good news for a salesperson selling into a disrupted industry is that the forces of change are bringing net new budget dollars to the table. The bad news is, the budgets have not yet landed. In effect, then, there are two kinds of sales opportunities to target.
Yet2
OCTOBER 6, 2023
yet2 is happy to announce we are Diamond Sponsors of the 2023 Innovation Roundtable Summit ! The Innovation Roundtable Summit is an annual meeting of the biggest innovators in the world. With over 600 corporate innovators and 250 companies attending, we are thrilled to be closely collaborating with the Innovation Roundtable to continue igniting innovation for a second year.
CMOE
OCTOBER 3, 2023
As the calendar flips to the last quarter of the year, it’s the perfect time to revisit and readjust your personal and organizational strategy. The successes you have experienced and the obstacles you have avoided throughout the year equip you to reevaluate your strategic objectives and the resources at your disposal and ensure you win the year. With changing industries, politics, and labor markets, how has your strategic landscape changed?
Sopheon
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Our guide to validating desirability: the first in our new four-part series looking at the biggest risks when building a product, and how to avoid them.
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Innovation is key to overcoming crises. This guide outlines how businesses can navigate uncertainty by adapting strategies, embracing open innovation, and strengthening resilience. Learn how to reassess business models, engage external expertise, and build a robust innovation ecosystem. Explore the three phases of crisis response—from immediate adaptation to long-term transformation—and discover how collaboration accelerates progress while reducing costs.
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 3, 2023
GUEST POST from Robyn Bolton Using only three words, how would you describe your company? Better yet, what three words would your customers use to describe your company? These three words capture your company’s identity. They answer, “who we are” and “what business we’re in.
Brunner
OCTOBER 6, 2023
This year marks the 30th anniversary of my working in the ‘internet’ industry. Although at the time I got involved in my first web-related project, I wasn’t aware that the internet would spawn a whole new way of working and living for just about every person on earth. Certainly, I didn’t think the next 30 years of my career would be devoted to it. In fact, in 1993, I had barely heard about the World Wide Web browser that Tim Berners-Lee created.
Exoplatform
OCTOBER 5, 2023
INRIA is the National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology. World-class research, technological innovation, and entrepreneurial risk are in its DNA. INRIA naturally gravitated towards eXo Platform because, for starters, the solution is based on open source and can be hosted in a secure sovereign cloud. This article %% POSTLINK %% appeared first on %% BLOGLINK %%.
Stephen Shapiro
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Summary of Tip 7 (of 40) from Best Practices Are Stupid. The Goldilocks Principle Today, we delve into a simple yet critical aspect of problem framing: The Goldilocks Principle. When attempting to solve a problem, we often frame it either too broadly (e.g., solving world hunger) or too narrowly. A prime example of the latter is the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.
Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage
When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m
Innovation Excellence
OCTOBER 1, 2023
Drum roll please… At the beginning of each month, we will profile the ten articles from the previous month that generated the most traffic to Human-Centered Change & Innovation. Did your favorite make the cut?
Collectivecamp
OCTOBER 4, 2023
Venture returns boil down to one thing.deal flow.
helloFUTURE
OCTOBER 1, 2023
In the rapidly evolving landscape of product innovation, two guiding forces emerge: intuition and data. At first glance, these might appear contradictory. Intuition, with its roots in gut feelings and experiential wisdom, seems almost archaic when placed beside the cool precision of data.
Stephen Shapiro
OCTOBER 4, 2023
The Kindle version of Best Practices Are Stupid is now available for order on Amazon. And I guess it’s currently pretty popular in Canada. It hit the best-seller list and was the #1 Hot New Release in the Management Sciences category. Woohoo! If you decide to buy, be sure to order the version with the purple cover. Order your copy here The post Best Practices Are Stupid #1 New Release appeared first on Stephen Shapiro.
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